The story of Dukla

Dukla is a small village in the south-eastern corner of Poland,
close to the Slovak Republic border. In late 1892 or early 1893 a
young married couple left this area and migrated to London, where
in 1899 their third son (and my maternal grandfather) Stanley, was
born.

Stanislaw (Stanley) was interned in Reading jail as a
conscientious objector from 1917-1918 and emigrated to South
Africa in 1921, where he became a successful businessman. By the
1940s Stanley owned a farm near Pietermaritzburg, which he named
Dukla. He had a sign cast in aluminium with the name on it. After
his death, my aunt became guardian of this sign and for many years
her houses in Rhodesia and later South Africa were called Dukla.

Today my aunt still has a copy of the Dukla sign outside her
house, as do my 2 cousins. I am lucky enough to have been given
the original sign and hope to name my house Dukla once the sign is
restored.

If you want to know about anything,
you study its history. If you want to know about yourself, you
study your ancestry.

The main purpose of this site is to advertise my genealogy in an
attempt to meet like minded folk. If you are not into genealogy you
will probably hate this site! However, to keep you amused here is my
only link to Royalty.

I have an enormous amount of detail on descendants of Stricklands
from the North York Moors in England: if you are related to this
family I would be keen to add you to the tree and one day get you a
copy of the book I occasionally print about these folk.

If you do have any interest in this genealogy please drop an email
to Chris Norris at family@dukla.net.